Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limp tunes appear to be played at the wrong speed , stretching them out until they become transparent and meaningless . |
| 2 | A PLEA was issued yesterday for people to stay away from the six sperm whales which appear to be trapped at Scapa Flow in Orkney . |
| 3 | They want to be put at ease . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think people want to be shouted at , ’ said Betty . |
| 5 | ‘ A place to be avoided at all costs , ’ he agreed . |
| 6 | Both Detective Sergeant Window and PC Hall are brave men who deserve to be commended at the highest level . |
| 7 | The main horsy event in October is the Horse of the Year Show to be held at the Wembley Stadium ( 8–12 October ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , the ability of workers to work ( labour-power ) itself is a marketable commodity , bought for the least cost to be used at will by the capitalist . |
| 9 | In fact , it is clear that the main characteristics of national industrial relations , their dominant and distinctive features , seem to be established at a fairly early stage in the industrial development of a country . |
| 10 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 11 | Archives have an important role to ensure that strategic datasets , at the very least , continue to be deposited at low cost . |
| 12 | The most important thing to note about the presentation of this balance sheet is that the fixed assets continue to be shown at their historic cost . |
| 13 | This is an area only recently receiving attention , increasingly by using statistical tests for ‘ normalcy ’ : such studies should bring some objectivity to the assumptions which tend to be made at the moment about the character of individual or groups of hoards . |
| 14 | Such arrangements tend to be made at board or director level and are usually entered into when there is a financial link between the companies , such as companies within the same group of companies ( sometimes referred to as intergroup trading ) or between companies whose directors simply want to formalise an arrangement to purchase as much of each other 's products as possible . |
| 15 | Infection commonly occurs in children and infants , and the clinical progression of the disease is similar to syphilis when it is seen in the sporadic form ; the late manifestations , however , tend to be seen at a much younger age . |
| 16 | In spasticity , all of the muscles controlling a limb tend to be contracted at the same time , so that the limb locks into position . |
| 17 | Since kitchens tend to be positioned at the back of the house , they are often in an ideal situation for extending into the back garden , or knocking through into a corridor or back room to create a more useful space . |
| 18 | New , covered shopping centres — for all their obvious advantages in a climate such as ours — tend to be aimed at established shops with a brand name , which can pay a good rent . |
| 19 | It does , however , need much pre-planning and administration , which is probably the reason why competitions tend to be aimed at the national level , and involve high value prizes such as holidays and cars , so that consumer response is great enough to cover the costs of the promotion . |
| 20 | While these sketches tend to be exaggerated at the witnesses ' expense they may provide useful cross-examination material , particularly if you can obtain corroboration from other witnesses . |
| 21 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 22 | Valuable coins would naturally be searched for with more energy and so tend to be recovered at a higher rate in ancient times . |
| 23 | These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life . |
| 24 | Three houses remain to be sold at the development , with prices currently between £164,950 and £189,000 . |
| 25 | Paintings which beg to be viewed at a distance , one by one , are squeezed together in a room as narrow , bare and poorly lit as a urinal in an airport . |
| 26 | From these equations we can solve for the prices p x , and p y as functions of the wage , which we take to be fixed at unity . |
| 27 | Under the new contracts staff would work a 37-hour week and have 35 days holiday to be taken at the management 's discretion . |
| 28 | People prefer to be looked at while you are talking . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the register of charges which the company is required to maintain may be more illuminating than that at Companies House since it must now contain entries of all charges on the company 's property whether or not they require to be registered at Companies House and copies of any instrument creating or evidencing a charge must also be kept . |
| 30 | 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor . |